One of the benefits of Web-based e-mail is the ability to log on from just about anywhere — at home, at work, a friend’s house, a mobile device or even a public library or cybercafe.

But what whether you forget to log off? Someone else who encounters an active session not only can read your personal correspondences, but they plus can use that history to grab your passwords from many online services that offer to send reminders via e-mail.

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Inc.’s Gmail service is trying to address that by letting you know whether you’re still logged on elsewhere and giving you a chance to disconnect remotely.

At the bottom of a Gmail inbox is a small notice of other active sessions. The new feature, being rolled out to users in waves, plus offers some data on the moment and location of recent Gmail activities.

The notification is bound to be useful, though […]

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